POPSUGAR Book Club Readers Share Their Favorite Books of the Summer, So Grab Your Beach Bag!

Updated on Aug 24, 2019 at 8:05 PM

We asked the POPSUGAR Book Club members about their favorite books of the Summer, and our Goodreads list is now overflowing with awesome recommendations. Thank you, readers, for the amazing responses! If you're looking for a fun-loving group who loves books as much as you do, join the POPSUGAR Book Club. It's a welcoming reading community full of literary enthusiasts . . . and a great place to get a book suggestion!

Ahead, check out reader-approved Summer reads you'll want to toss in your beach bag.

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POPSUGAR Book Club Readers Share Their Favorite Books of the Summer, So Grab Your Beach Bag!

Keeping Lucy by T. Greenwood

Fleishman Is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise by Julia Stuart

Educated by Tara Westover

Summer of '69 by Elin Hilderbrand

Things You Save in a Fire by Katherine Center

The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah

Washington Black by Esi Edugyan

The Guest Book by Sarah Blake

The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

The Unbreakables by Lisa Barr

Magic For Liars by Sarah Gailey

The Lost Girls of Paris by Pam Jenoff

After the End by Clare Mackintosh

The Gifted School by Bruce Holsinger

This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar

The Way I Used to Be by Amber Smith

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

The Last Mrs. Parrish by Liv Constantine

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson

Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair by Danielle Sered

Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes

Little Darlings by Melanie Golding

The Tiger Catcher by Paullina Simons

The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George

The Fiery Cross by Diana Gabaldon

Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen by Sarah Bird

Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple

The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic by Leigh Bardugo

The Favorite Sister by Jessica Knoll

Hidden Bodies by Caroline Kepnes

The Ruins by Scott Smith

The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware

Mrs. Everything by Jennifer Weiner

Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert

The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn

Codename Villanelle by Luke Jennings

The Memory of Butterflies by Grace Greene

Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld

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